Bar Graph

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title></title>
	<style type="text/css">
	body {
		font-family: sans-serif;
	}
	.barPositive {
		fill: #333;
	}
	.barNegative {
		fill: #ccc;
	}
	.axis text {
		font-size: 10px;
		fill: #777;
	}
	.axis path {
		display: none;
	}
	.axis line {
		stroke-width:1px;
		stroke: #ccc;
		stroke-dasharray: 2px 2px;
	}
</style>
</head>

var margin = {top: 20, right: 20, bottom: 20, left: 60};
var width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
		height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
		.attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
		.attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
	.append("g")
		.attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

// ordinal scale and rangeRoundBands are uniquely important for bar graphs
var x = d3.scale.ordinal()
		.rangeRoundBands([0, width], 0.33);
var y = d3.scale.linear()
		.range([height, 0]);

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
		.scale(x)
		.tickSize(-height)
		.tickPadding(8)
		.orient("bottom");
var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
		.scale(y)
		.tickSize(-width)
		.tickPadding(8)
		.orient("left");

d3.tsv("jobs.tsv", ready);

function ready(err, data) {
	if (err) throw "error loading data";

data.forEach(function(d) {
		d.jobs_change = +d.jobs_change;
		d.private_job_change = +d.private_job_change;
		d.unemployment_rate = +d.unemployment_rate;
		var s = d.month_year.split("-");
		d.date = new Date(s[0], (+s[1]-1) );
	});

y.domain(d3.extent(data, function (d) { return d.jobs_change; }));
	data.sort(function(a,b) { return a.date - b.date; });
	x.domain(data.map( function (d) { return d.month_year; }));

svg.append("g")
			.attr("class", "x axis")
			.attr("transform", "translate(0," + (height) + ")")
			.call(xAxis)
			// selectAll text to update axis text
			.selectAll("text")
			.text(function (d) { 
				var dateSplit = d.split("-");
				if ( dateSplit[1] === "01" ) {
					return dateSplit[0];
				};
 			});
	svg.append("g")
			.attr("class", "y axis")
			.call(yAxis)
			.selectAll("text")
			.text( function	(d) { 
				var changeLabel = d;
				return d = (changeLabel > 0) ? "+" + d + "k" : d + "k";
			});

};

</script>

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